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April 2006, page 73

 

Astronomy and Astrophysics Atomic and Molecular Physics Biological and Medical Physics
Chemical Physics Computers and Computational Physics Condensed Matter Physics
Cosmology and Relativity Energy and Environment Fluids
Geophysics History and Philosophy Instrumentation and Techniques
Materials Science Popularizations Space and Planetary Science
Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics Texts and Education Theory and Mathematical Methods

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra. J. Tennyson. Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts 2. Imperial College Press, London, 2005. $52.00, $28.00 paper (192 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-513-9, ISBN 1-86094-529-5 paper   Buy at Amazon

Digital Astrophotography: The State of the Art. D. Ratledge, ed. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer-Verlag, London, 2005. $34.95 paper (177 pp.). ISBN 1-85233-734-6   Buy at Amazon

Dust in the Universe: Similarities and Differences. K. S. K. Swamy. World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics 7. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $58.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 981-256-293-1   Buy at Amazon

The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars. A. Baykal, S. K. Yerli, S. C. Inam, S. Grebenev, eds. NATO Science Series 2: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 210. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $179.00 (386 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3859-3   Buy at Amazon

Evolution of Stars and Stellar Populations. M. Salaris, S. Cassisi. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005. $150.00, $60.00 paper (374 pp.). ISBN 0-470-09219-X, ISBN 0-470-09220-3   Buy at Amazon

The Nature and Evolution of Disks Around Hot Stars. R. Ignace, K. G. Gayley, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 337. Proc. mtg., Johnson City, TN, July 2004. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2005. $77.00 (358 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-203-2   Buy at Amazon

The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth. W. Orchiston, ed. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 334. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $169.00 (328 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3723-6   Buy at Amazon

Planetary Nebulae as Astronomical Tools. R. Szczerba, G. Stasińska, S. K. Górny, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 804. Proc. conf., Gdańsk, Poland, June– July 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2005. $159.00 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0294-9   Buy at Amazon

The Square Kilometre Array: An Engineering Perspective. P. J. Hall, ed. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $179.00 (430 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3797-X   Buy at Amazon

Star Clusters and How to Observe Them. M. Allison. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer-Verlag, London, 2006. $29.95 paper (211 pp.). ISBN 1-84628-190-3   Buy at Amazon

Stardust from Meteorites: An Introduction to Presolar Grains. M. Lugaro. World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics 9. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $38.00 (209 pp.). ISBN 981-256-099-8   Buy at Amazon

Tidal Evolution and Oscillations in Binary Stars: Third Granada Workshop on Stellar Structure. A. Claret, A. Giménez, J.-P. Zahn, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 333. Proc. wksp., Granada, Spain, May 2004. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2005. $77.00 (316 pp.). ISBN 1-58381-196-6   Buy at Amazon

Atomic and Molecular Physics

Atomic Spectroscopy: Introduction to the Theory of Hyperfine Structure. A. V. Andreev. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $129.00 (274 pp.). ISBN 0-387-25573-7   Buy at Amazon

Crystalline Molecular Complexes and Compounds: Structures and Principles. Vols. 1 and 2. F. H. Herbstein. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $249.50 set (1273 pp. set). ISBN 0-19-852660-1   Buy at Amazon

Physics with Ultra Slow Antiproton Beams. Y. Yamazaki, M. Wada, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 793. Proc. wksp., Wako, Japan, Mar. 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2005. $162.00 (401 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0282-5, CD-ROM  Buy at Amazon

Topics in Atomic Physics. C. E. Burkhardt, J. J. Leventhal. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $59.95 (288 pp.). ISBN 0-387-25748-9   Buy at Amazon

Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists. V. A. Parsegian. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2006. $110.00, $50.00 paper (380 pp.). ISBN 0-521-83906-8, ISBN 0-521-54778-4 paper   Buy at Amazon

Biological and Medical Physics

Electric Fields of the Brain: The Neurophysics of EEG. 2nd ed. P. L. Nunez, R. Srinivasan. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2006 [1981]. $98.50 (611 pp.). ISBN 0-19-505038-X   Buy at Amazon

Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging. H. Zaidi, ed. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $125.00 (583 pp.). ISBN 0-387-23854-9   Buy at Amazon

Chemical Physics

Block Copolymers I. V. Abetz, ed. Advances in Polymer Science 189. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $199.00 (238 pp.). ISBN 3-540-26580-5   Buy at Amazon

Block Copolymers II. V. Abetz, ed. Advances in Polymer Science 190. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $219.00 (252 pp.). ISBN 3-540-26902-9   Buy at Amazon

Modeling Chemical Systems Using Cellular Automata. L. B. Kier, P. G. Seybold, C.-K. Cheng. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $169.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3657-4, CD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

Computers and Computational Physics

Continuum Mechanics Using Mathematica®: Fundamentals, Applications and Scientific Computing. A. Romano, R. Lancellotta, A. Marasco. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006. $79.95 (388 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-3240-9, CD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

Creative 3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach. B. G. Blundell, A. J. Schwarz. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. $94.95 (371 pp.). ISBN 0-471-48271-4   Buy at Amazon

JavaTech: An Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing with Java. C. S. Lindsey, J. S. Tolliver, T. Lindblad. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $85.00 (708 pp.). ISBN 0-521-82113-4   Buy at Amazon

The Mathematica GuideBook for Numerics. M. Trott. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $79.95 (1208 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95011-7, DVD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

The Mathematica GuideBook for Symbolics. M. Trott. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $79.95 (1453 pp.). ISBN 0-387-95020-6, DVD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

Condensed Matter Physics

Advances in Solid State Physics. B. Kramer, ed. Advances in Solid State Physics 45. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $199.00 (425 pp.). ISBN 3-540-26041-2   Buy at Amazon

Diffusion in Condensed Matter: Methods, Materials, Models. P. Heitjans, J. Kärger, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $179.00 (965 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20043-6   Buy at Amazon

Electrons and Disorder in Solids. V. F. Gantmakher (translated from Russian by L. I. Man). International Series of Monographs on Physics 130. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $114.50 (225 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856756-1   Buy at Amazon

HTS Thin Film and More on Vortex Studies. A. Narlikar, ed. Studies of High Temperature Superconductors (Advances in Research and Applications) 49. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $149.00 (216 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-305-4   Buy at Amazon

Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction. 2nd ed. P. Mohn. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 134. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006 [2003]. $64.95 paper (229 pp.). ISBN 3-540-29384-1   Buy at Amazon

Quantum Computation in Solid State Systems. B. Ruggiero et al., eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $129.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 0-387-26332-2   Buy at Amazon

Topology in Condensed Matter. M. I. Monastyrsky, ed. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences 150. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $149.00 (254 pp.). ISBN 3-540-23406-3   Buy at Amazon

Trends in Semiconductor Research. T. B. Elliot, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (220 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-414-X   Buy at Amazon

Unconventional Superconductors: Experimental Investigation of the Order-Parameter Symmetry. G. Goll. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 214. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $149.00 (171 pp.). ISBN 3-540-28985-2   Buy at Amazon

Cosmology and Relativity

Black Holes: An Introduction. D. Raine, E. Thomas. Imperial College Press, London, 2005. $34.00, $18.00 paper (155 pp.). ISBN 1-86094-586-4, ISBN 1-86094-588-0 paper   Buy at Amazon

Brane-Localized Gravity. P. D. Mannheim. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $58.00 (337 pp.). ISBN 981-256-561-2   Buy at Amazon

General Relativity. I. B. Khriplovich. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $69.95 (116 pp.). ISBN 0-387-25643-1   Buy at Amazon

New Developments in Quantum Cosmology Research. A. Reimer, ed. Horizons in World Physics 247. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (289 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-321-6   Buy at Amazon

Particles, Strings, and Cosmology. K. Choi, J. E. Kim, D. Son, eds. AIP Conference Proceedings 805. Proc. symp., Gyeongju, Korea, May–June 2005. AIP, Melville, NY, 2005. $177.00 (490 pp.). ISBN 0-7354-0295-7   Buy at Amazon

Progress in Dark Matter Research. J. Val Blain, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (255 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-243-0   Buy at Amazon

Quantum Cosmology Research Trends. A. Reimer, ed. Horizons in World Physics 246. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (201 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-320-8   Buy at Amazon

Trends in Dark Matter Research. J. Val Blain, ed. Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY, 2005. $129.00 (227 pp.). ISBN 1-59454-248-1   Buy at Amazon

Energy and Environment

Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol. 30. P. A. Matson, A. Gadgil, D. M. Kammen, eds. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 2005. $86.00 (515 pp.). ISBN 0-8243-2330-0   Buy at Amazon

Dictionary of Energy. C. J. Cleveland, C. Morris, eds. Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2006. $85.00 (502 pp.). ISBN 0-080-44578-0   Buy at Amazon

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future. 6th ed. A. Goudie. Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2006 [2000]. $39.95 paper (357 pp.). ISBN 1-4051-2704-X   Buy at Amazon

Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy. N. J. Myers, C. Raffensperger, eds. Urban and Industrial Environments. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006. $62.00, $25.00 paper (339 pp.). ISBN 0-262-13458-6, ISBN 0-262-63323-X paper   Buy at Amazon

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. J. S. Walker. U. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, 2005 [2004, reissued]. $16.95 paper (303 pp.). ISBN 0-520-24683-7   Buy at Amazon

Fluids

The Dynamics and Structure of the Liquid–Liquid Interface. R. G. Compton, ed. Faraday Discussions 129. Proc. conf., Cambridge, UK, Sept. 2004. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2005. $298.00 paper (375 pp.). ISBN 0-85404-978-9   Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Microfluidics. P. Tabeling (translated from French by S. Chen). Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $99.50 (301 pp.). ISBN 0-19-856864-9   Buy at Amazon

Measurement in Fluid Mechanics. S. Tavoularis. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $85.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 0-521-81518-5   Buy at Amazon

Geophysics

Low-Temperature Thermochronology: Techniques, Interpretations, and Applications. P. W. Reiners, T. A. Ehlers, eds. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 58. Geochemical Society, St. Louis, MO, and Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, VA, 2005. $40.00 paper (622 pp.). ISBN 0-939950-70-7   Buy at Amazon

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. B. F. Atwater et al. United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, and U. of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005. $24.95 paper (133 pp.). ISBN 0-295-98535-6   Buy at Amazon

History and Philosophy

Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970. C. Lécuyer. Inside Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006. $40.00 (393 pp.). ISBN 0-262-12281-2   Buy at Amazon

Moving the Stars: Christian Doppler, His Life, His Works and Principle, and the World After. P. M. Schuster (translated from German by L. Wilmes). Living Edition. Pöllauberg, Austria, 2005. $39.00 (232 pp.). ISBN 3-901585-05-2   Buy at Amazon

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities. T. Arabatzis. U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. $70.00, $28.00 paper (295 pp.). ISBN 0-226-02420-2, ISBN 0-226-02421-0 paper   Buy at Amazon

Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center. R. D. Hall, D. J. Shayler, B. Vis. Springer–Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/ Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $29.95 paper (386 pp.). ISBN 0-387-21894-7   Buy at Amazon

Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews. B. Evans. Springer– Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis/ Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $39.95 paper (486 pp.). ISBN 0-387-21517-4   Buy at Amazon

Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. M. P. Mackowski. Centennial of Flight Series 15. Texas A & M U. Press, College Station, 2006. $49.95 (289 pp.). ISBN 1-58544-439-1   Buy at Amazon

Instrumentation and Techniques

Understanding GPS: Principles and Applications. 2nd ed. E. D. Kaplan, C. J. Hegarty, eds. Artech House, Norwood, MA, 2006 [1996]. $129.00 (703 pp.). ISBN 1-58053-894-0   Buy at Amazon

Materials Science

Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices. K. Takatoh et al. The Liquid Crystals Book Series. Taylor & Francis, New York, 2005. $129.95 (263 pp.). ISBN 0-748-40902-5   Buy at Amazon

Chemical-Mechanical Planarization—Integration, Technology and Reliability. A. Kumar et al., eds. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 867. Proc. symp., San Francisco, Mar. 2005. MRS, Warrendale, PA, 2005. $94.00 (302 pp.). ISBN 1-55899-820-9   Buy at Amazon

Fracture and Damage of Composites. M. Guagliano, M. H. Aliabadi, eds. Advances in Fracture Mechanics 8. WIT Press, Billerica, MA, 2006. $175.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 1-85312-669-1   Buy at Amazon

Handbook of Advanced Magnetic Materials. Vols. 1–4. Vol. 1: Nanostructural Effects. (377 pp.). Vol. 2: Characterization and Simulation. (604 pp.). Vol. 3: Fabrication and Processing. (354 pp.). Vol. 4: Properties and Applications. (448 pp.). Y. Liu, D. J. Sellmyer, D. Shindo, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $1250.00 set (1783 pp. set). ISBN 1-4020-7983-4   Buy at Amazon

High Thermal Conductivity Materials. S. L. Shindé, J. S. Goela, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $149.00 (271 pp.). ISBN 0-387-22021-6   Buy at Amazon

Mathematics and Mechanics of Granular Materials. J. M. Hill, A. P. S. Selvadurai, eds. Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2005. $109.00 (320 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3781-3   Buy at Amazon

Modern Ferrite Technology. 2nd ed. A. Goldman. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006 [1990]. $119.00 (438 pp.). ISBN 0-387-28151-7   Buy at Amazon

Nanotubes and Nanowires. C. N. R. Rao, A. Govindaraj. RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2005. $149.00 (272 pp.). ISBN 0-85404-832-4   Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

The Story of Science: Newton at the Center. J. Hakim. Smithsonian Books, Washington, DC, 2005. $21.95 (463 pp.). ISBN 1-58834-161-5   Buy at Amazon

Space and Planetary Science

The Magnetospheric Cusps: Structure and Dynamics. T. A. Fritz, S. F. Fung, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $199.00 (414 pp.). ISBN 1-4020-3438-5   Buy at Amazon

Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System. 2nd rev. ed. A. Stern, J. Mitton. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2005 [1997]. $79.95 (244 pp.). ISBN 3-527-40556-9   Buy at Amazon

Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics

The Analysis of Means: A Graphical Method for Comparing Means, Rates, and Proportions. P. R. Nelson, P. S. Wludyka, K. A. F. Copeland. ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability. American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, and SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005. $85.00 paper (247 pp.). ISBN 0-89871-592-X   Buy at Amazon

Classical Methods of Statistics: With Applications in Fusion-Oriented Plasma Physics. O. J. W. F. Kardaun. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005. $129.00 (388 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21115-2, CD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics. 2nd ed. D. P. Landau, K. Binder. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005 [2000]. $70.00 (432 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84238-7   Buy at Amazon

Kinetics, Transport, and Structure in Hard and Soft Materials. P. F. Green. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2005. $159.95 (353 pp.). ISBN 1-57444-768-8   Buy at Amazon

Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Theory of Nonequilibrium Systems. W. Ebeling, I. M. Sokolov. Advances in Statistical Mechanics 8. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $68.00 (329 pp.). ISBN 981-02-1382-4   Buy at Amazon

Statistics of Linear Polymers in Disordered Media. B. K. Chakrabarti, ed. Elsevier, San Diego, 2005. $135.00 (360 pp.). ISBN 0-444-51709-X   Buy at Amazon

Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Science: A Short Course. B. S. Bokstein, M. I. Mendelev, D. J. Srolovitz. Oxford U. Press, New York, 2005. $119.50, $59.50 paper (326 pp.). ISBN 0-19-852803-5, ISBN 0-19-852804-3 paper, CD-ROM   Buy at Amazon

Texts and Education

Computational Physics. 2nd ed. N. J. Giordano, H. Nakanishi. Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006 [1997]. $100.40 (544 pp.). ISBN 0-13-146990-8   Buy at Amazon

Elementary Quantum Mechanics. Rev. ed. P. Fong. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005 [1962]. $88.00, $48.00 paper (377 pp.). ISBN 981-256-292-3, ISBN 981-256-351-2 paper   Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics. A. W. Date. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $80.00 (377 pp.). ISBN 0-521-85326-5   Buy at Amazon

Photonic Devices. J.-M. Liu. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $100.00 (1052 pp.). ISBN 0-521-55195-1   Buy at Amazon

Physics in Molecular Biology. K. Sneppen, G. Zocchi. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $70.00 (311 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84419-3   Buy at Amazon

The Physics of Atoms and Quanta: Introduction to Experiments and Theory. 7th ed. H. Haken, H. C. Wolf (translated from German by W. D. Brewer). Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005 [2000]. $79.95 (517 pp.). ISBN 3-540-20807-0   Buy at Amazon

Problems and Solutions in Quantum Mechanics. K. Tamvakis. Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2005. $110.00, $55.00 paper (334 pp.). ISBN 0-521-84087-2, ISBN 0-521-60057-X paper   Buy at Amazon

Theory and Mathematical Methods

Coherent Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems. V. M. Akulin. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. $99.00 (471 pp.). ISBN 3-540-21052-0   Buy at Amazon

The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light. 2nd ed. D. M. Grimes, C. A. Grimes. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005 [2002]. $90.00 (416 pp.). ISBN 981-238-925-3   Buy at Amazon

Field Theory, the Renormalization Group, and Critical Phenomena: Graphs to Computers. 3rd ed. D. J. Amit, V. Martín-Mayor. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005 [1984]. $86.00, $44.00 paper (543 pp.). ISBN 981-256-109-9, ISBN 981-256-119-6 paper   Buy at Amazon

Geometric and Algebraic Topological Methods in Quantum Mechanics. G. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. Sardanashvily. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $78.00 (703 pp.). ISBN 981-256-129-3   Buy at Amazon

Large Nc QCD 2004. J. L. Goity et al., eds. Proc. wksp., Trento, Italy, July 2004. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $102.00 (307 pp.). ISBN 981-256-399-7   Buy at Amazon

Lattice Gauge Theories: An Introduction. 3rd ed. H. J. Rothe. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics 74. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $84.00, $48.00 paper (588 pp.). ISBN 981-256-062-9, ISBN 981-256-168-4 paper   Buy at Amazon

Progress in String Theory: TASI 2003 Lecture Notes. J. M. Maldacena, ed. Proc. sch., Boulder, CO, June 2003. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $108.00 (548 pp.). ISBN 981-256-406-3   Buy at Amazon

The Quantum Mechanics Solver: How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics. 2nd ed. J.-L. Basdevant, J. Dalibard. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006 [2000]. $64.95 (292 pp.). ISBN 3-540-27721-8   Buy at Amazon

Selected Topics in Convex Geometry. M. Moszyńska. Birkhäuser, Boston, 2006. $59.95 paper (226 pp.). ISBN 0-8176-4396-6   Buy at Amazon

Theory and Phenomenology of Sparticles: An Account of Four-Dimensional N = 1 Supersymmetry in High Energy Physics. M. Drees, R. Godbole, P. Roy. World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2005. $108.00, $64.00 paper (555 pp.). ISBN 981-02-3739-1, ISBN 981-256-531-0 paper   Buy at Amazon

Working Analysis. J. Cooper. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2005. $99.95 (663 pp.). ISBN 0-12-187604-7   Buy at Amazon

 

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